Distributing ACF in a free plugin

• sebastienserre

• April 4, 2018 at 8:51 pm

Hello

I’m currently writing a free plugin using ACF free (4.4.12 from WP Repo)
I followed https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/including-acf-in-a-plugin-theme/?version=4#instructions and I can create fields but my PHP register Fields doesn’t work: if(function_exists("register_field_group")) return false…

ANy idea please?

• Kevin Pliester

• April 4, 2018 at 10:31 pm

Why not using acf_add_local_field_group? (Check here and here)

• sebastienserre

• April 5, 2018 at 5:12 am

Unfortunately the same, I don’t succed to go through tje ‘if’ :-/

• John Huebner

• April 5, 2018 at 10:05 pm

The function may not exist when you are trying to create your fields. When are you trying to create the field group? Is your code inside an action filter?

The best time to do this in on “init” with a priority that will fire after ACF

add_action('init', 'register_my_post_groups', 20);

• sebastienserre

• April 6, 2018 at 2:36 am

Thanks for your reply but unfortunately not work

If I ‘die’ just befor thee function_exists(), it dies… but I never go through :-/

<?php
if ( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ){ exit; } // Exit if accessed directly

	function wpcasama_create_acf_field() {
	
	
		if ( function_exists( "acf_add_local_field_group" ) ) {
			
			acf_add_local_field_group( array(
				'id'         => 'acf_mail-alert',
				'title'      => 'Mail Alert',
				'fields'     => array(
					array(
						'key'           => 'field_5ac3bb4effff5',
						'label'         => 'Phone',
						'name'          => 'wpcasama_phone',
						'type'          => 'text',
						'default_value' => '',
						'placeholder'   => '',
						'prepend'       => '',
						'append'        => '',
						'formatting'    => 'none',
						'maxlength'     => '',
					),
					array(
						'key'           => 'field_5ac3bb9adb144',
						'label'         => 'city',
						'name'          => 'wpcasama_city',
						'type'          => 'text',
						'default_value' => '',
						'placeholder'   => '',
						'prepend'       => '',
						'append'        => '',
						'formatting'    => 'html',
						'maxlength'     => '',
					),
					array(
						'key'           => 'field_5ac3bbc9db145',
						'label'         => 'Minimum Price',
						'name'          => 'wpcasama_min_price',
						'type'          => 'number',
						'default_value' => '',
						'placeholder'   => '',
						'prepend'       => '',
						'append'        => '',
						'min'           => 0,
						'max'           => '',
						'step'          => 1,
					),
					array(
						'key'           => 'field_5ac3bbf8db146',
						'label'         => 'Maximum Price',
						'name'          => 'maximum_price',
						'type'          => 'number',
						'default_value' => '',
						'placeholder'   => '',
						'prepend'       => '',
						'append'        => '',
						'min'           => 0,
						'max'           => '',
						'step'          => 1,
					),
				),
				'location'   => array(
					array(
						array(
							'param'    => 'post_type',
							'operator' => '==',
							'value'    => 'wpcasa-mail-alerte',
							'order_no' => 0,
							'group_no' => 0,
						),
					),
				),
				'options'    => array(
					'position'       => 'normal',
					'layout'         => 'no_box',
					'hide_on_screen' => array(),
				),
				'menu_order' => 0,
			) );
		}
	}
	
	add_action('init', 'wpcasama_create_acf_field', 200);